KitKat Love Story

The Hershey Company, a chocolate and cocoa products company, increased awareness for its KitKat brand in the US by launching an engagement ring box in the shape of a KitKat that revealed a ring when broken.

THE WRONG KIND OF VIRAL: Evan Wilt was once the most hated man on the Internet after a photo, shared by his girlfriend Haley, showed him savagely biting into a KitKat® bar. Rather than breaking off a KitKat® "finger" Evan simply took one jaws-sized bite out of the entire bar. The Internet (naturally) had a strong reaction. One commenter wondered, "Does he eat a banana sideways?" The man was uncivilized. Others, including CNN's Jake Tapper, demanded that Haley "dump him immediately." Jake was not alone. In a Twitter poll, 52% of KitKat®fans voted...

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